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W. D. SCOTT, 

I'RIETOR, 

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PHILADELPHIA. 



SCOTT'S TREATISE 



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CHOLERA 



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Copyright, 1877, by IV. D. SCOTT. 

ALL EIGHTS SE3ESVED. 



SCOTT'S TREATISE 



PREVENTION AND CURE 



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It must be apparent to every American 
farmer, that with each succeeding year the 
tendency to disease among our hogs, has 
been alarmingly on the increase. 

The author has had ample opportunity for 
observation and investigation on this sub- 
ject. 

Having been engaged in farming and 
stock raising in the West for the past seven- 
teen years, and having lost hogs after using 
all the remedies heard of, as thousands of 
other farmers have done, I commenced in- 



vestigating* and experimenting by dissection, 
sanitary precaution, diet, remedies, treat- 
ment, etc. 

Although not fully satisfied as to the orig- 
inal cause of disease, we have become con- 
vinced that with diet, sanitary regulations, 
and suitable remedies, we shall not only stop 
the spread of disease, but we shall also be 
able to cure the sick. 

Our experience has convinced us that the 
disease called hog cholera is invariably con- 
tagious, and unless arrested on its first ap- 
pearance, will become epidemic and infec- 
tious. 

To arrest this disease after hogs had com- 
menced dying, baffled our best endeavors 
until we adopted the use of sanitary precau- 
tion with systematic treatment, and putting 
into practice the principle that with hogs, as 
well as people, sanitary regulations and diet 
have much to do in assisting remedies to 
to overcome diseases of this character, and 
to arrest contagion. 



After much experiment, we have succeeded 
in compounding a powder which has been 
in our hands, and all who have used it, en- 
tirely successful, and we have the greatest 
confidence it will do the same in the hands 
of all who use it as directed. 

This powder we call "Scott's Hog Cure" 
We offer it to the American farmer with 
the greatest assurance, and we ask for it a 
fair and faithful trial, carefully observing 
our mode of treatment and sanitary sugges- 
tions. 

Accompanying each package of medicine 
we send this book, which contains full direc- 
tions, with our mode of treatment, sanitary 
regulations, etc. 

This medicine acts vigorously on the liver, 
kidneys and blood, expels intestinal worms, 
destroys kidney worms, and all other par- 
asites. 

It increases the appetite and makes hogs 
thrifty. 



It is the best preparation we have over 
found for the prevention and cure of cholera 
and all other diseases of hogs arising from 
derangement of the liver, kidneys and blood. 

It is intended for hogs only, and all other 
animals must be kept from it. 



TREATMENT FOR CHOLERA. 

After having separated the sick hogs 
from the well, which should be done imme- 
diately after the discovery of the disease, 
commence by giving half a tablespoonful 
of the cure to each sick hog that weighs 
over one hundred pounds, and proportion- 
ately less to smaller ones. If after twenty- 
four hours this does not act as a gentle 
cathartic, or there is no improvement, in- 
crease the dose to a tablespoonful. If at 
the end of forty-eight hours there is no im- 
provement, add a tablespoonful of pine tar 
and half a teaspoonful of spirits of turpen- 



tine to each dose, until the disease has 
abated. After this discontinue the turpen- 
tine, and continue with the cure and tar, 
until no signs of disease can be seen, and 
hogs eat well. 

Care must be taken not to give too much 
physic. This is particularly necessary with 
breeders that are with pig. 

The medicine should always be given in 
sour milk, gruel or molasses. 

The well hogs should also be removed to 
other quarters that are dry and clean, and 
given equal to one pound of the cure to one 
hundred hogs daily, until there is no signs 
of disease and all the hogs are eating well. 

The sick and the well hogs should have 
all the charcoal and salt and wood ashes 
they would eat. Mix salt and ashes — say 
one quart of salt to one peck of ashes. 

If not accustomed to salt, feed sparingly 
at first. 



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If possible get your hogs divided up, 
so they cannot sleep together in large num- 
bers. 

The medicine should be thoroughly mixed 
in slop made of oats, barley or rye, chopped 
fine, or wheat middlings and feed, oats or 
barley. Give them no corn at such times, 
if it is possible. 

Be careful to have enough trough room, 
so all can get an equal share, when feeding 
slop with medicine in. 

When the cure is given as a sanitary, it 
may be given once a day, once a week, or 
once a month, as necessity may seem to 
require. 

If at any time hogs are not eating well, 
give them the cure until they do. 

Symptoms of cholera are a cough, loss of 
appetite, inclination to lie in their nests, 
their tails will hang straight down, and in 
cool weather they will act as if chilly and 
cold. 



For cough give one quart of pine tar to 
ten hogs, mixed with their slop, each morn- 
ing. This may be given with or without the 
cure, as circumstances require. 

For kidney worm give cure, with turpen- 
tine added, and rub turpentine across the 
kidneys twice a week, until a cure is 
effected. 

For thumps or pneumonia give cure, with 
tar and turpentine added, in same dose as 
for cholera. 

For quinsy or sore throat give powders, 
with tar and turpentine added, and bathe 
the parts with turpentine as a liniment. If 
the cure acts too much as a physic at any 
time, the dose must be decreased. 

For mange in pigs, remove them or 
cleanse their nests, giving clean straw fre- 
quently. Keep them separated from the 
large hogs, and give them slop made from 
milk or cooked potatoes, also green pasture, 
if possible, and rub the parts affected with 
crude petroleum, or a mixture half kerosene 



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and half lard. Give them the cure twice a 
week. 

If hogs continue to mope and do not eat, 
after giving the cure, examine the vents in 
their fore legs, and if found closed or 
feverish, saturate a corn cob with crude 
petroleum or strong soap-suds, and rub the 
parts thoroughly. It may require several 
applications to effect a cure. 

Examine your pigs, and if found lousy 
tie a sponge or rag on a stick, saturated 
with petroleum, and rub along the back and 
behind the ears. One or two light applica- 
tions will be sufficient. 

For blind staggers, cut the upper lip just 
above the teeth until it bleeds freely, and 
rub turpentine along the back, giving the 
cure as in other case^. 

Most of the diseases mentioned are brought 
about from neglect and a proper observance 
of sanitary measures ; and. I feel I cannot 
too strongly urge upon my farmer friends 



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the necessity of carefully considering and 
putting into practice the following : 

It is important that all sick hogs should 
be separated from the well, and treated in- 
dividually. 

Never let the well hogs eat food that 
comes in contact with the droppings of the 
sick. Nor should the sick and well hogs be 
allowed to sleep together. 

Musty food of all kinds is unwholesome. 
Give them pure water to drink, and in cold 
weather a bed of clean straw to sleep on. 
Give no hay for bedding. Never allow 
them to sleep in damp, musty sheds, or 
under old buildings, or on manure heaps. 
Change your hog lots frequently, if possible. 
Give them green pasture in summer. Sow 
rye for fall and spring pastures, particu- 
larly on farms that are not seeded to tame 
grass. 

Raw potatoes, turnips, pumpkins and 
fruit are excellent for hogs that are kept on 
dry food. 



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If the same lots are to be used continually, 
they should be plowed in summer so as to 
turn under all filth. 

If you have no timber of your own, it 
will pay you to buy and burn coal for your 
hogs. If charcoal is too expensive, and 
you cannot get wood ashes, throw stone coal 
to your hogs (soft coal is the best), and buy 
a box of lye such as is used for making 
soap ; dissolve it in one gallon of soft water, 
and give equal to one tablespoonful of this 
in slop to each hog twice a week, or in sum- 
mer drop a box into your slop barrel occa- 
sionally. 

Feed no corn to sick hogs, oats and barley 
preferred. Make slopTrom product of small 
grain if possible ; if meal is to be used, it 
should be cooked. 

Air-slacked lime and salt may be given in 
same proportion as^ashes, and will be found 
a good substitute for the latter., Those who 
have should give both. 



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The cure may be mixed with either ashes 
or lime and salt, and fed in troughs, when it 
is not convenient to feed slop. Remember 
to fence your troughs so other stock cannot 
get to them. 

Breeders should have especial care ; it is 
estimated that from one-fourth to one-third 
of our pigs die before or at weaning time. 
Most of this loss is from neglect. 

Breeders should have separate quarters 
for some time before and after they have 
their pigs. This prevents the older ones 
from robbing the younger, also prevents the 
pigs from sucking the forward breeders, and 
causing them to abort. 

Feed your pigs bountifully ; if you have 
a number of litters, make a pen, and arrange 
it so the small ones can get in and out at 
pleasure, and slop them separately. 

Give them a separate bed, also save the 
milk for the pigs ; keep them thrifty. A 
stunted pig is worthless. If you give them 



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the cure (and you should by all means if 
they are not healthy), give about one-fourth 
as much as to a grown hog. Give them 
freely of charcoal and salt, and ashes also. 

If your breeders are inclined to abort, give 
them hemp seed. It should be boiled and 
fed in slop. One or two tablespoonfuls may 
be given three times a day. 

In giving the cure to breeders that are 
with pig, not over half an ordinary dose 
should be given. After they have their pigs, 
it should be given in full dose if the pigs or 
mother are not healthy. It is economy and 
safety to give your well hogs the cure as 
often as once or twice a month. 

Never crowd your hogs ; the practice of 
crowding too many into a small pen, whereby 
they shall take on fat fast, is dangerous, and 
should be abandoned for a pen that is large 
enough and dry enough to keep all clean. 

Do not make a scavenger of him, and treat 
him as though he was only created to eat all 
the rubbish and musty food on the farm, but 



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give him a fair show for his life, and when 
you give him sour, musty food, give him neu T 
tralizers also, such as charcoal, ashes, lime 
and salt. 

The present practice of giving all kinds 
of drugs without a knowledge of how much 
is a proper dose, has done much mischief, 
and must be abandoned. 

We must care for and doctor our hogs 
with as much precision as we do our horses 
and cattle. 

The hog when sick is the least complain- 
ing, and most neglected of all our domestic 
animals. If he gets sick, he is generally 
left to his fate, or what is worse, given an 
overdose of some drug that will kill him, 
and it is a matter of surprise that more do 
not die than do. 

The remedies we give and the suggestions 
we offer are the result of actual experience, 
and we feel the greatest confidence in offering 
it as a remedy and treatment far surpassing 
anything ever offered before on this subject. 



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Below, we give the certificate of Professor 
Aughey, which we think will satisfy all who 
know that eminent gentleman, that our med- 
icine is no quack compound, but is just what 
we claim for it. He, with other practical 
chemists, has been consulted in regard to the 
many experiments it has been necessary to 
make during the past years, in which we 
have been testing and perfecting our med- 
icinal and sanitary remedies. 

University of Nebraska, Department of 
Natural Sciences. 

Lincoln, January 18th, 1877. 

1 have carefully examined the formula for 
the preparation of " Scott's Hog Cure," and 
find it to represent materials that are well 
known, and the most of them are regarded 
as among the most powerful medicinal and 
sanitary agents. 

The proportions and method of prepara- 
tion seem to me the best possible for a hog 
medicine. 

Samuel Aughey, 

Professor of Natural Sciences in the 
University of Nebraska. 



